Funding Opportunity – Varieties of Understanding

Stephen Grimm (Fordham University, Philosophy) has informed me of a new $3.8 million project that will explore various answers to the question: “What is understanding?” This 3-year project will sponsor scholars who work in the areas of Psychology, Philosophy, and/or Theology. In their own words:

“[This project] will examine the various ways in which human beings understand the world, how these types of understanding might be improved, and how they might be combined to produce an integrated understanding of the world.”

One cannot withdraw oneself from the order established by the Law of the universe. Order does not exist because of disorder, nor the law because of unlawfulness, as some believe; in general, it is not because of the worse that the best exists and manifests itself. On the contrary, disorder exists only because of order, unlawfulness because of the law, unreason because of reason, because the order, the law and the reason which one sees here below are only borrowed.
~ Plotinus, Enneads 3.2.4